should there be a universal time limit for marathons? (Page 11)

Yes.  Me too.

You forgot the sarcasm font. 

My point was rather than sit and argue over how to define a race that's already done, we should be looking forward to our next races.

People ask for opinions, I provide. I'm closing in on 500 hours training for the year, ain't a whole lot more I can squeeze in. Plus they don't let me train at work.

But they obviously let you post on BT a lot.

Well duh! Obviously they don't require deep thinking at your job.

Yes, the solution, of course, is to set a universal time limit for all marathons.

See what I did there? Bringing back around ...

Just have to be smarter than my clients (or make them think I am).  It's a relative thing.

Ah, didn't realize you were in Special Education.

Bet you can't find a dozen that have time limits longer than 8 hours. So all this discussion has been about fewer than twelve races?

We've heard your stance on this many, many times in this thread.

Why can't this just die?

Marathons won't have a universal limit, RD and the cities that host them will dictate the time limit (which we established on pages 1 & 2 of this thread). Plain and simple. Move on.

Should there be a universal time limit on uninteresting threads?  (like this one)

Or boring posters? (like this one)

Yes there should!
But all should do their best to not minimize the accomplishments of the person who completes a marathon!  walking, running, or both!  Yes this debate is like beating a dead horse, and im just reading it up to now.  What next, do we have to justify the verb for what we call a wheelchair athlete who completes a marathon, and the amputees?

By description, i'll never run a marathon.  but you better damn believe that I will be every bit as estatic as the person who does, because we both completed the same course.

As well you should be, as I have said the verb describes the action, not the accomplishment. And if you say "never," then it's probably true.

I'm not sure what your point is, but I doubt you will find a wheelchair athlete who would say he "ran" a marathon.

Went through it and only found one instance where she said run. Sure I missed others.

Really, I have no problem with anyone calling what they do whatever they choose to call it. I'm well within my rights to say I ran a century even though I did it on my bike. But that doesn't make it so.

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